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JW : From The Skeptical Critical Commentary : 15:21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them], that he might bear his cross. (ASV) 15:21 Strong's Transliteration Greek English Morphology 2532 [e] kai καὶ And Conj 2...

JW : From The Skeptical Critical Commentary : 15:21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them], that he might bear his cross. (ASV) 15:21 Strong's Transliteration Greek English Morphology 2532 [e] kai καὶ And Conj 2...

JW : The Gospel of "Mark" has (not) long been considered the original Gospel. No one knows where it came from or why. Despite it having no known authority it now has ultimate authority for exactly 1/3 of the World's population which is the exact % that the Canon it created says will be un...

JW : From The Skeptical Critical Commentary : 15:21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them], that he might bear his cross. (ASV) 15:21 Strong's Transliteration Greek English Morphology 2532 [e] kai καὶ And Conj 2...

JW : Mark 15:21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them], that he might bear his cross. (ASV) Thanks to Peter, the Younger Wolf, here is my award winning Thread on "Mark's" (author) fictional use of name...

JW : First a note about the competing explanations in this Forum for the offending verse: Mark 15:21 ["bear" is a mistranslation. The word is "take up"] And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them]...

JW : The offending verse: 15:21 Strong's Transliteration Greek English Morphology 2532 [e] kai καὶ And Conj 29 [e] angareuousin ἀγγαρεύουσιν they compel , V-PIA-3P 3855 [e] paragonta παράγοντά passing by V-PPA-AMS 5100 [e] tina τινα one, IPro-AMS 4613 [e] Simōna Σίμωνα Simon N-AMS 2956 [e] Kyrēnaio...

JW : If some Skeptics are taking Mark 15:21 as quality evidence of historical witness than I think this Thread needs to back up and present the evidence for "Mark's" (author) fictional use of names: Mark's DiualCritical Marks. Presentation Of Names As Evidence Of Fiction JW : Background: ...

JW : There is currently another Thread here: Simon, from Cyrene But regarding "Simon, from Cyrene" what does the likely original Greek say?: Mark 15:21 Strong's [/b] Transliteration Greek English Morphology 2532 [e] kai καὶ And Conj 29 [e] angareuousin ἀγγαρεύουσιν they compel, V-PIA-3P 3...

Joe Check out this statement by Carrier on the subject of Eusebius saying Josephus talked about Jesus after he talked about John the Baptist. Its in the comments in his reply to #12. "Eusebius doesn’t say the TF came after the Baptist passage. That’s in English translations, but not the Greek....